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Feeling Singular

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Author : Ben Bascom
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23

Feeling Singular written by Ben Bascom and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.

Much of U.S. cultural production since the twentieth century has celebrated the figure of the singular individual, from the lonesome Huckleberry Finn to the cinematic loners John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, but that tradition casts a backward shadow that prohibits seeing how the singular in America was previously marked as unwanted, outcast, excessive, or weird. Feeling Singular: Queer Masculinities in the Early United States examines the paradoxical nature of masculine self-promotion and individuality in the early United States. Through a collection of singular life narratives, author Ben Bascom draws on a queer studies approach that uncovers how fraught private desires shaped a public masculinity increasingly at odds with the disinterested norms of republican public culture. In telling the stories of excessive American masculinities, Feeling Singular presents the Early Republic of the United States as a queer and messy world of social outcasts and eccentric personalities all vying--and in spectacular ways failing--for public attention. These figures include John Fitch (1743-1798), a struggling working-class mechanic; Jeffrey Brace (1742-1827), a formerly enslaved Black Revolutionary War veteran; Timothy Dexter (1747-1806), a self-declared "Lord" who secured a fortune through a risky venture in bedpans and whalebone corsets; Jonathan Plummer (1761-1819), an itinerant peddler and preacher; and William "Amos" Wilson (1762-1821), a reclusive stonecutter who became popularly known as "the Pennsylvania Hermit." Despite leaving behind copious manuscripts and printed autobiographies, they dwindled instead into cultural insignificance, failing to achieve what scholars have called the hallmarks of "republican masculinity." Through closely reading a range of texts--from manuscripts to hastily printed books, and from phonetically spelled pamphlets to sexually explicit broadsides--Bascom uses the language of queer studies to understand what made someone singular in the early United States and how that singularity points at the ruptures in social codes that get normalized through historical analysis. Departing from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, whom tradition positions as a paragon of self-production, this book offers instead typologies of the failed inventor, the tragic outsider, the flamboyant pretender, the farcical exhorter, and the disaffected exile.

A Compendium Of Materia Medica Therapeutics And Repertory Of The Digestive System

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Author : Arkell Roger McMichael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

A Compendium Of Materia Medica Therapeutics And Repertory Of The Digestive System written by Arkell Roger McMichael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Digestive organs categories.

Feeling Singular

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Author : Assistant Professor of English Ben Bascom
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024

Feeling Singular written by Assistant Professor of English Ben Bascom and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Feeling Singular reconceives the Early Republic period of the United States by presenting the forgotten and queer stories of a series of marginal, even eccentric figures in the republican United States. Through closely reading a range of texts--from manuscripts to hastily printed books, and from phonetically spelled pamphlets to sexually explicit broadsides--Bascom uses the language of queer studies to understand what made someone singular in the early United States and how that singularity points at the ruptures in social codes that get normalized through historical analysis.

New Monthly Magazine And Universal Register

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Author : Thomas Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823

New Monthly Magazine And Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with categories.

History Of The English Language And Literature

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Author : Robert Chambers (Verleger)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1837

History Of The English Language And Literature written by Robert Chambers (Verleger) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with English language categories.

The Mirror Of Literature Amusement And Instruction

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Author : John Timbs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1823

The Mirror Of Literature Amusement And Instruction written by John Timbs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1823 with English periodicals categories.

Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.